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Ubuntu 7.04 beta feisty

ugh, ive been trying to reinstall feisty on my ibook for like an hour and its not working for shiz. i have an 8 gig partition for it already made in gparted, but when i choose manual partitioning, then click on the partition and click install, it says mount point not specified. I have no idea what the mount path is. Do you know what i should do, or what the mount point is?
 
AppleGuy08 said:
ugh, ive been trying to reinstall feisty on my ibook for like an hour and its not working for shiz. i have an 8 gig partition for it already made in gparted, but when i choose manual partitioning, then click on the partition and click install, it says mount point not specified. I have no idea what the mount path is. Do you know what i should do, or what the mount point is?
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u should mount the partition u prepared for linux as forward slash. like this.
/
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This looks cool. I've been meaning to try out Ubuntu on a *really* old Vaio notebook I still have lying around somewhere. I don't expect the visual effects will work too well though! Can't remember the exact specs but it's a P3 650MHz or something with 256MB RAM... I wonder if it would even install on that?
 
dcv said:
This looks cool. I've been meaning to try out Ubuntu on a *really* old Vaio notebook I still have lying around somewhere. I don't expect the visual effects will work too well though! Can't remember the exact specs but it's a P3 650MHz or something with 256MB RAM... I wonder if it would even install on that?
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it will be slow, but if they computer is in retire, go ahead try it out, u can, of course, download Xubuntu instead, which require less system resources.
 
Shoot I was wrong, I mounted that partition just fine, the error that always comes up says "no root file system defined." Thats where I'm getting stuck.
 
AppleGuy08 said:
Shoot I was wrong, I mounted that partition just fine, the error that always comes up says "no root file system defined." Thats where I'm getting stuck.
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i have no idea, my guess would be u need to format the partition into ext3. I never saw that before tho. maybe do some google search
 
AppleGuy08 said:
Shoot I was wrong, I mounted that partition just fine, the error that always comes up says "no root file system defined." Thats where I'm getting stuck.
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Okay, when you get to the manual section of the ubuntu feisty install. Delete that 8gb partition you made, now select the freespace it should be saying something like... "Free Space 8XXXmb" (something like that, if you made an 8gb partition) Subtract 256mb from that number then select it and create new partition and use that number minus the 256mb, chose ext3 as file structure and then mount point of "/" now click okay. Now you'll see "Freespace 256mb" select that and create a new partition and it's file structure or whatever make it "swap"

I forgot what everything is actually called, i don't remember if that drop down menu is in fact called "File Structure" But I hope you at least kind of understand that.. heh I'm terrible at creating instructions from memory =S

But that should work!
 
Wow, so ... coming from outside the Linux world, and only seeing snapshots, I do think both Beryl (if over the top) and Emerald are fairly impressive. Wubi is an outstanding idea, also.

One quick question? Any progress with the latest Ubuntu in terms of bluetooth? Are mice / keyboards / audio devices configurable via point and click? Can the live CD be used on a Mac that has only a BT mouse and kb? Also is there an integrated PIM that works with any major cell phones via BT?
 
mkrishnan said:
Wow, so ... coming from outside the Linux world, and only seeing snapshots, I do think both Beryl (if over the top) and Emerald are fairly impressive. Wubi is an outstanding idea, also.

One quick question? Any progress with the latest Ubuntu in terms of bluetooth? Are mice / keyboards / audio devices configurable via point and click? Can the live CD be used on a Mac that has only a BT mouse and kb? Also is there an integrated PIM that works with any major cell phones via BT?
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according to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bluez-utils/+bug/32415
it doesn't seem to "work out of box",
 
Well, I'm downloading Feisty, and will trash my Vista partition and install Feisty there. I haven't booted into Vista for months (gee, I wonder why? :D) and my XP installation in Parallels serves my Windows need (yes, need. Testing webpages in Internet Explorer to make sure the damn thing renders it properly). I may actually use Feisty in place of OSX for a bit. I really, really want to learn the ins and outs of Linux, and while OSX being Unix based helps, Apple still makes stuff so damn easy I can't learn :D

Of course, my stupidity means I have to redownload it again. I was on campus earlier at work and downloaded it from our mirror server. Being on the same network (in fact, the server was on the other side of the wall from me in the data center) I downloaded the entire ISO in like 2 minutes. But stupidly, forgot to transfer it to my flash drive before I left. So, I'm downloading the torrent. Damn stupidity, now I have to wait :( :D
 
nateDEEZY said:
Okay, when you get to the manual section of the ubuntu feisty install. Delete that 8gb partition you made, now select the freespace it should be saying something like... "Free Space 8XXXmb" (something like that, if you made an 8gb partition) Subtract 256mb from that number then select it and create new partition and use that number minus the 256mb, chose ext3 as file structure and then mount point of "/" now click okay. Now you'll see "Freespace 256mb" select that and create a new partition and it's file structure or whatever make it "swap"

I forgot what everything is actually called, i don't remember if that drop down menu is in fact called "File Structure" But I hope you at least kind of understand that.. heh I'm terrible at creating instructions from memory =S

But that should work!
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Wow thanks a ton for that lil tutorial, it worked perfectly! and to think i wasted hours searching on ubuntu forums...now its time to install beryl! Thanks again
 
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